I've been largely an improvisational actor for most of my career.

Somewhere along the line we stopped believing we could do anything. And if we don't have our dreams, we have nothing.

I don't have a fear of flying; I have a fear of crashing.

I was the fattest baby in Clark County, Arkansas. They put me in the newspaper. It was like a prize turnip.

Getting the nomination is like gravy. Winning would be like whatever is better than gravy.

I believe in running through the rain and crashing into the person you love and having your lips bleed on each other.

I attribute all my success to ignorance. If you don't ever think about not getting where you want to be, I think it helps you out.

Marketing is the devil.

If you love somebody let them know every day.

Usually when you're playing a character, you think a lot about their backstory.

You want to know the hardest thing about being smart? What? I pretty much always know what's going to happen next; there's no suspense.

You can'tassume i'min bad shapejust becausei've run out ofthe energy toimpressyou.

The writer’s life requires courage, patience, empathy, openness. It requires the ability to be alone with oneself. Gentle with oneself. To be disciplined, and at the same time, take risks.

War may be the game of kings, but, like the games at ancient Rome, it is generally exhibited to please and pacify the people.

What love will make you do All the things that we accept Be the things that we regret

You could put Jerry Lee Lewis, Little Richard, Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley on one side of the stage, and James Brown on the other, and you wouldn't even notice the others were there!

They serve God well, who serve his creatures.

I only wear clothes because I can't walk around with nothing on, but they started calling me a fashionista.

The superiority of one man's opinion over another's is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.

Communists should set an example in study; at all times they should be pupils of the masses as well as their teachers.

I know not whether taxes are raised to fight wars, or wars are fought in order to raise taxes.